Holder for shaving-soap sticks



-F. GRANT.

HOLDER FOR SHAVING SOAP STICKS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29. 1919.

1,374, 1 57. Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

INVENTEFR FI E FRANK [TRAN T X @WWM ATTE] RBLEY UNITED STATES FRANK GRANT, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOLDER FOR SHAVING-SOA]? STICKS.

Application filed October 29, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK GRANT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at lVestiield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Holders for Shaving-Soap Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holders for shaving soap stick and its leading object is to provide a holder having means for feeding a shaving stick to the open end thereof for application to the face of the user, arranged so as to avoid clogging and to permit of the firm grasping of the body of the holder.

The invention is embodied in a tubular holder having a collar rotatably mounted on the upper end thereof formed with a corrugated screw thread for engaging the shaving soap stick and arranged so that when the collar is rotated on the tubular holder the shaving soap stick may be propelled along the holder, either outwardly or inwardly thereof.

With the above and other objects in view this invention relates to certain new and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, clearly described in the foilowing specification and fully illustrated. in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of my improved holder.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the upper end of the holder, with the protecting cap removed and the lower portion of the holder broken away to show the arrangement of the soap stick therein.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a soap stick.

Fig. 5 is an end view thereof, showing a key recess.

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the opposite end showing a key lug or projection.

Referring to the accompanying drawings 5 designates a tubular holder formed with a longitudinal key or corrugation 6 for preventing the shaving soap stick 7 from rotating in the holder, said soap stick having a longitudinal key groove 8 to receive the holder key 6, and said groove 8 may be formed in the manufacture of the stick 7 or formed by forcing the stick 7 in the holder 5.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Serial No. 324,323.

The upper end of the holder, which is an nular is formed with an external head 9 which is engaged by asimilar bead 10 formed on the collar 10 which is fitted on the upper end of the holder 5 and retained in position by the interlocking engagement of the head 10 with the head 9. In order to permit of the assembling of the collar 10 on the holder 5 the lower end of the collar 10 is made slightly expansible by providing on the lower end of said collar a series of external lugs 12, which are radially spaced from each other and which provide finger holds for the rotation of the collar 011 the holder. By reason of the lugs 12 a series of spring like portions are provided on the lower end of the collar which impart a clutching action to the collar below the bead 9, adapted to prevent displacement of the collar on the holder and yet to permit of its relative rotation thereon.

The upper end of the collar 10 is formed with corrugated screw threads 13 which extend inward above the upper end of the holder 5 thus to engage the upper end of the soap stick 7, so that when the collar is rotated on the holder the soap stick will he propelled therein. The upper end of the collar is normally open so that the soap may be ejected or advanced above the collar and applied directly against the face of the user without danger of scratching the skin of the user.

The holder is equipped with a protecting cap 1 1 which is provided with an upper end wall adapted to close the upper end of the holder and with a depending skirt formed with screw threads 15 capable of being threaded on the screw threads 13 of the collar 10. The lower end of the holder is protected by a cap 16 the upper edge portion of which is adapted to abut against the head 17 formed on the lower end of the holder and adapted to reinforce the same against collapse.

The shaving stick 7 may be formed with a key recess 18 on one end thereof, which is shown to be in the shape of a cross but which may be of any other shape and the opposite end may beformed with key projection 19 of corresponding shape. By this arrangement the remnant of one end of. a used stick may be interlocked with the fresh end of a new stick inserted behind it and thus the last of the used stick completely consumed.

for rotation on one end of the holder and provided with screw threads for engaging the stick said screw threads being disposed above the upper end of the holder.

2. A dispensing holder for shaving soap sticks consisting of a tube open at one end and provided with a bead located near said end, a collar mounted externally on said tube and having a bead interlocked with the bead of the holder to permit of relative rotation, said collar being formed with an expansible portion located below its bead. whereby said portion can be torced past the bead of the holder and will exert a clutching action on the holder below its bead, the collar being formed with screw threads extending above the holder for direct engagement with the soap stick in the holdelyand a protecting cap threaded on the threads of the collar.

3. A dispensing holder for shaving soap sticks consisting of a tube open at one end and provided with a bead located near said end, and a collar mounted externally on said tube and having a bead interlocked with the bead of the holder andwill exert a clutch-' ing action on the holder below its bead, the collar being formed with screw threads eX- tending above the holder for direct engagement with the soap stick in the holder.

4. A holder for shaving soap sticks and the like consisting of a tube, a second tube associated with the first tube for relative rotation thereon, one of said tubes having means to prevent the article from being rotated therein and the other of said tubes having means for propelling the article in both tubes in either direction.

5. In combination, a tube having a longitudinal key to engage the soap stick or the like contained therein, a second tube mounted for rotation on said first tube and pro vided with a'screw thread for propelling the article, and an article contained in said tubes andhavingon-one end a recess and on the opposite end a lug adapted to form a key to lit in a recessrof corresponding shape, whereby the remnant of a partly used article may be locked for rotation to the end of a new article.

Signed by me at Springfield, lilassachusetts.

FRANK GRANT. 

